measure-before-you-fix SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
measure-before-you-fix from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/measure-before-you-fix@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- garrytan/gbrain
- Path
plugin/skills/measure-before-you-fix/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 16, 2026
- Size
- 10,222 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31,587
- License
- MIT
Before fixing a slow/stale/timeout alert, measure the step yourself. Kill the theory with a stopwatch, not a code change. Measure-first ops triage for temporal alerts (stale, timeout, freshness, wedged, N hours behind) from gbrain doctor, autopilot, sync, and cron monitors — runs BEFORE any timeout raise, threshold change, or pipeline rewrite.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Measure Before You Fix > **Convention:** see [conventions/brain-first.md](../conventions/brain-first.md) — > before re-deriving a diagnosis, `search` the brain for prior incidents of > the same alert. A recurring alert usually has a recorded verdict already. Route here on any alert whose claim is **temporal** — "X is stale", "step timed out", "pipeline wedged", "job is slow", "N hours behind". These alerts invite an immediate structural fix (raise the timeout, split the step, reorder the pipeline). Do the measurement first. It is almost always cheaper than the fix, and it frequently invalidates it. (Routing is a harness convention, not a mechanical guarantee — the contract below is the discipline that makes it stick.) On gbrain surfaces this covers: `gbrain doctor` staleness checks (e.g. sync freshness, cycle freshness), autopilot cycle alerts, the sync stall watchdog (`reason: 'stall_timeout'`), and any cron monitor built on top of them. ## The rule **One stopwatch measurement of the suspect step, before any code change.** If you cannot state the measured duration of the thing you claim is slow, you …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/measure-before-you-fix@sha256:522a4869e8c2caacThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 16, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 17 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-07 | 590bb9a | 10,222 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 6509f9b | 10,221 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-04 | 739e5cc | 10,084 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-16 | df4feda | 9,559 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10222 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
garrytan/gbrain · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lvqygnagzcqansw6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/measure-before-you-fix GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/522a4869e8c2caac061b56af8a428775a1a69494084484fdcb78c3a18cc72021
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